Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Princeton Readings in Religions v
3. CONTENTS vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Praying: Individual and Communal Worship
7. 1. The Amidah in Colonial American Synagogues 11
8. 2. Seventeenth-Century Puritan Conversion Narratives 22
9. 3. The Book of Common Prayer and Eighteenth-Century Episcopalians 32
10. 4. The Green Corn Ceremony of the Muskogees 48
11. 5. The Way of Holiness: The Friday Meeting 67
12. 6. Reception of Novices into the Order of the Sisters of St. Benedict 74
13. Singing: Songs of Devotion, Praise, and Protest
14. 7. English Hymnody in Early America 89
15. 8. The 1842 Hymnal of Penina Moise 108
16. 9. Catholic Song i n the Antebellum United States 122
17. 10. African American Spirituals 138
18. 11. Ojibwe Funerary Hymn Singing 150
19. 12. Temperance Songs and Hymns 158
20. Teaching: Learning How to Live Correctly
21. 13. The Celebration of Marriage in the Dutch Reformed Church 171
22. 14. The Visions of Plenty-coups 181
23. 15. Mary Anne Sadlier's Advice for Irish Catholic Girls 197
24. 16. John Humphrey Noyes, the Oneida Community, and Male Continence 218
25. 17. Is Life Worth Living? 234
26. 18. In His Steps: A Social Gospel Novel 253
27. Healing: Health, Happiness, and the Miraculous
28. 19. The Spiritual Meanings of Illness in Eighteenth-Century New England 269
29. 20. Supernaturalism and Healing in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 299
30. 21. Christian Physiology and Diet Reform 310
31. 22. Sickness, Death, and Illusion in Christian Science 320
32. 23. The Miracles of St. Anthony of Padua 337
33. Imagining: The Unseen World
34. 24. The Life and Death of Mother Marie de Saint Joseph 347
35. 25. Possession, Witchcraft, and the Demonic in Puritan Religious Culture 366
36. 26. Speech of Sose-Há-Wä and the Code of Handsome Lake 402
37. 27. A Methodist Dream of Heaven and Homeland 417
38. 28. African-American Vision Stories 426
39. Persuading: Witnessing, Controversies, and Polemics
40. 29. Native American Visionary Experience and Christian Missions 445
41. 30. American Anti-Catholic Pornography 452
42. 31. The Christian Doctrine of Slavery 466
43. 32. Trance Lecturers in Antebellum America 483
44. 33. The Cremation versus Burial Debate 492
45. Index 505